Aaron Johnson – The Second Coming of Uncle Sam

NOWhere Limited is pleased to announce the release of a new, signed and numbered print edition by Aaron Johnson: The Second Coming of Uncle Sam.

Originally realized as a reverse-painted, acrylic-polymer-peel painting on an American flag, Aaron Johnson’s unforgettable image is now available as a limited edition archival pigment print on acid-free paper. It can be purchased exclusively through NOWhere Limited for $200 USD per print + shipping.

Aaron Johnson signing the edition at his studio in Brooklyn.

Each print in this extremely small edition of 30 pieces has been signed and numbered by the artist. The print, including border, measures approximately 21.25 x 30 inches. The paper is a 300 gsm thick, acid and lignin free 100% cotton rag.

In addition to the edition of 30, we will also have available a very small number of Printer’s Proofs. This PP version is limited to only 3 signed and numbered prints and its price is set at $500. These Printer’s Proofs are available: here

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Aaron Johnson is a painter based in Brooklyn. His reverse-painted acrylic-polymer-peel paintings inhabit the realms between the erotic-catastrophic/ecstatic-psychotic/comic-tragic, fusing diverse painting vocabularies into his own distinctive breed of Americana-grotesque, all rendered obsessively with tender brutality. Roberta Smith in The New York Times describes his works as “visceral, beautiful and flamboyantly timely, which is saying a lot.” Johnson received his MFA from Hunter College, NY in 2005. His work has been exhibited internationally at such venues as Stux Gallery, New York; Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, NY; Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen; Gallery Brandstrup, Oslo; The Running Horse Contemporary Art Space, Beirut; and Kunsthalle Exnergrasse (Vienna). Johnson’s exhibitions have been reviewed in many publications including Modern Painters, Art News, Beautiful Decay, Kunst International, The Village Voice, and The New York Times. In 2007 he was awarded a Space Program grant from The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, and is MacDowell Colony Fellow for 2012. His work is in the permanent collections of The Weisman Foundation and The Museum of Modern Art.